Innovation Roundtable: a dialogue between university and business on financial crime

USI Transfer addressed the issue of financial crime with an Innovation Roundtable dedicated to this constantly evolving phenomenon amidst digitisation and globalisation. Academic and industry experts discussed the risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities offered by new technologies.

On 6 May, USI Transfer organised a new Innovation Roundtable dedicated to FinCrime—a long-standing issue that is taking on new forms and presenting new challenges with digitisation and globalisation.

The encounter provided a platform for dialogue between academic and industry experts, who openly shared their perspectives. A particularly interesting debate focused on the role of new technologies, which, while adding complexity and vulnerability to financial systems, also offer essential analysis and protection tools. Beyond the exchange of ideas, the Innovation Roundtable also aimed to identify synergies that could lead to collaborative projects, delivering effective solutions to real business needs.

The key contributors to this edition included professors and senior researchers from the Faculty of Informatics and the Faculty of Economics (Prof. Laurent Frésard, Prof. Marc Langheinrich, Prof. Rachel Nam, Dr Dimosthenis Pasadakis, and Prof. Olaf Schenk), alongside business managers and executives (Stefan Keller - Head of Delivery, Blockstream; Luca Previtali - Head of Technology, Cyber, Data and Innovation, BancaStato; Andrea Sabatino - CEO, Dataware Intelligence; Madan Sathe - Partner, Forensic, Data Analytics, AI, and Technology, Deloitte).

Andrea Sabatino, CEO of Dataware Intelligence, commented: "USI's Innovation Roundtable on FinCrime was an excellent opportunity to bring academic expertise and operational realities together around the same table to prevent financial crime. The discussion was concrete, stimulating, and forward-looking, offering relevant insights into data, technology, and collaboration among diverse stakeholders. The USI Transfer team succeeded in creating a highly valuable space for dialogue: now the challenge is to turn these conversations into structured collaborations and real impact."

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